Quotes About Spontaneity

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child

Structure ignites spontaneity.

When you live for every second, tomorrow doesn't matter!

I dived out of the office and I was gone … hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn't Born Free, it was RUN FREE!

Like a true Nature's child, we were born, born to be wild

Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?' She said, 'Well, Dad, they're round and they're messy. But that's what makes them fun. Once we get older we're not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you're eating a Valomilk, it's okay to be messy again.

Responsibility and self-discipline give you the freedom to be more spontaneous because you won't risk abusing your freedom.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self-conscious, so apparently moral…. I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous … more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. —Alice Walker

For a date, I'd like to do something different to drinks or dinner - like walking around Camden for a day in the sun, or something weird, like skydiving. Then at least if you don't get on you've had fun.

Usually, the things that are quickly slapped together become the big hits, rather than the ones you would painstakingly deliberate on.

I can be out very, very late at night because I don't require that much sleep.

I find that I'm constantly drawing. Even when I'm on holidays or when the baby's sleeping, I'll just start doing some automatic drawing, something like that, and then it will turn into a piece, even though I thought I was just doodling.

I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my moves, it's not about how cool I am, it's not about how slick I look on the dance floor, it's about having a great time.

I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.

I'd say, 90 percent of the time, I get an idea, like, within 10 seconds of somebody telling me what their whole thing is about. And usually that flash of an idea, it's what I always go with. It might change slightly, but in general, that's pretty much it. To get me to change the entire idea is pretty tough.

We didn't have a script, but with Jean-Luc we didn't really need one. It was like an understanding between us. He would say, 'Anna, a little bit quicker or a little bit slower.' That was all. We didn't do a lot of retakes. With some other actors I know he would do a lot of retakes, but not with me.

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.